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From: Ken Logan
Date: 19 Oct 2004
Time: 13:54:25 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.115.216
I'm not sure that I follow exactly what you are saying, but I'll offer you these thoughts... There is no question that some children have impairments in both fluency and phonology (or language) at the same time. We have several of these kids on our clinical caseload right now. I am not suggesting that stuttering and phonological disorder (or other forms of language impairment) are manifestations of the same of the problem. I did suggest that language planning problems (and possibly the unintelligible speech that results from phonological impairment) MIGHT create temporal demands that could conceivably exacerbate the symptoms of fluency impairment (this needs to be studied). Research has shown that persons who stutter perform certain types of linguistic planning tasks more slowly than persons who do not stutter (including phonologically-based tasks). Conditions like DAF, choral speech and the like, would not be expected to override a child's phonologic, syntactic, or lexical impairments.